Leicester phone numbers start 0116
Leicester is in Leicestershire, and its landline numbers begin 0116.
An 0116 number does not prove the caller is in Leicester
135 phone companies hold 0116 ranges, a number keeps its code when it moves provider, and caller ID can be faked outright. The code tells you which exchange the range was allocated to - nothing about who dialled.
- Area code
- 0116
- Administrative area
- Leicestershire
- Nation
- England
- Population
- 368,600
- This town
- The place 0116 is named after
- Phone companies holding ranges
- 135
Numbers reported on 0116
Nobody has reported an 0116 number to this site yet. That does not mean an 0116 number is safe - it means no one has told us about one.
Other places on 0116
0116 covers more than Leicester. A call showing this code could have been allocated to a range at any of these exchanges.
Codes near Leicester
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Buy us a coffeeArea code and range data from Ofcom's published allocations, downloaded 1 October 2026. Town locations, populations and administrative areas from Wikidata (CC0), joined 1 October 2026 - towns within 40 km of the exchange. Reports are from visitors to this site and are unchecked. Browse every town A-Z.